01413nam a2200193Ia 4500 CTU_19983 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 909.8203 D777 The Facts on File encyclopedia of the 20th century New York Facts on File 1991 The book is a comprehensive guide to the momentous century in which we live. It has witnessed two world wars; a worldwide economic depression; the assassinations of Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy; the dawn of the nuclear era; the landing of man on the moon; the birth of the computer age; the introduction of miracle drugs and organ transplants; the invention of talking moving pictures and stereophonic recording; and contless other events that have foever changed life on Earth. Covering our era in unprecedented breadth and depth. the more than 8.000 A-to-Z entries in this book capture the people, places, events and concepts that have shaped the past 90-plus years. This book chronicles the full extent in this century, including: world leaders, diplomacy, conflicts, government, explorers, inventions, music, literature, film, athletes, and thousands of other topics history, modern dictionaries 20th century Minh, 971129 Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ